Analysis of The Lord Is His Devotees' Slave



Whatever is a devotee's
caste, clan, family, or name,
Rama's love for him is the same.

Beggar and king
are one to him.

Say, of what caste could be
Brahma or Shiva?

Rama will never abide
in the egotistic man's heart
therefore his slave, Suradasa,
has abandoned pride.

Rama was born in the Raghu clan
Krishna found his home in Gokula.

Words fail to tell of
the Lord's love
universal, all-embracing;
Dhruva was a Kshatriya,
Prahlada a demon and Vidura the son of a maid:
yet the Lord gave them his supreme love,
Krishna washed the devotees' feet
at the Rajasuya.

The Lord is the slave
of his devotees
age after age.
The tongue can't relate
his countless deeds.

Says Suradasa, the Puranas and Vedas
are witness to these.


Scheme ABB CX XX DXAD XX EECFXEXF XAXXA AA
Poetic Form
Metre 10101 1110011 1111101 1001 1111 111111 1110 1011001 00111 1111 10101 10110011 1011101 11111 011 0101010 1101 10100101101 101111011 10101011 101 01101 11101 1101 01101 1101 110101 11011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 697
Words 131
Sentences 10
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 3, 2, 2, 4, 2, 8, 5, 2
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 70
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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